WordPress.combloggers will get the chance to earn some money from ad revenue thanks to a new deal between Automattic and Federated Media (FM).

A blog post from Jon Burke, ads lead for WordPress, said this was something that bloggers have been requesting for some time.

The post said, “We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better than AdSense.”

While many online retailers will be counting the profits from increased sales on ‘Mega Monday’ there is a sobering lesson on how not to run a discount promotion from Ebuyer.com.

The electronics retailer joined the discount trend by offering a range of sale items for just £1, including laptops and PCs. However, the website couldn't handle the extra traffic that this offer generated.

Early figures from US online retailers show that mobile traffic over Thanksgiving was up 160% on last year.

The statistics from mobile platform company Usablenet show that traffic was actually heavier on Thanksgiving day than on ‘Black Friday’, which is traditionally seen as the busiest shopping day.

Usablenet, which powers the mobile sites for more than 100 US retailers (as well as M&S, John Lewis and others), says this is because consumers were searching for deals on Thursday before heading to the shops on Friday.